The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-09

would De CeIGdlu W uO 81 IL GIo OlOOO
was from Revenue, through his sons
Planet and Exchequer, and doubly
certain if the mare was by E~xchequer's
son, Bob Lee. The facts on which he
bases the belief that a mare so bred
might be reasonably expected to pro-
duce trotters, is that Trustee, the sire
of Exchequer, was the sire of the
great gliding Trustee, the first horse
that ever trotted 20 miles within the
hour that Planet, son of Revenue,
son of Trustee, had himself fine speed
at the trot that E~xchequer, brother
to Planet, is the only thoroughbred
horse that ever attained standard rank
as a sire of trotters, and that his son,
Bob Lee, could and did trot easily
in $40.
Of the great trotting families that
founded by Hambletonian is beyond
all doubt the greatest, Hambletonian
having been the sire of 80 horses that
have trotted inside Of 2.3O, of SO
horses that have begotten $50 trotters
and of 81 mares which have produced
$50 performers. The Mambrino
family comes next and nearly all the
good horses; probably every great
horse of the present day except Daniel
Lambert, Sultan, General Knox and
Happy Medium are made up of COM
bination of these strains.
OF the small families, the Morgan
has been of most benefit. The grand
dam of the Incompatible Geo. Wilkes
having been a Morgan mare and the
beauty of the Golddust strain being
traceable to this source. In fact the
great beauty, pure gait and sweet
temper of the Morgan family renders
a good strain Of the blood peculiarly
desirable for a country such as ours,
where for sometime at least our main
hope must be in breeding fine roadsters,
with the chance of an occasional race
horse. This chance will certainly not
be improved by the Morgan blood, for
as mentioned above, a strain of it
helped to make George Wilkes. Ethan
Allen was in his day as good as the
best, his son Daniel Lambert is the
sire of more $50 trotters than any
other living horse. The Golddusts
were in their day too swift for the
swiftest and too game for the gamest,
and though Mr.. Dorsey finally sue
ceeded in breaking himself and ruin
ing his stock by constantly intro
ducing running blood. That the old
blood is good, is proved by the per-
sistency with which it breeds on Roma,
a daughter of Golddust, being the
dam of Romance and Farce, two great
trotters, and the grand young stallion
| Guyon.
Recently attempts have been made
to show that the Clay strain is the
best. AS the dams of George Wilkes
and Electioneer were of Clay blood
and Sultan descended in the male line
from the head of that family, it's claims
to distinction cannot be ignored. It
seems a certainty that had the blood
been so very valuable, it would not
have been allowed to become so nearly
extinct, and as all the great horses
that have Clay blood in them are
royalty bred in the other lines, it is
hardly fair to credit all their excel
1ence to that one strain.
The fame of Pilot, jr., the head of
the pacing strains, as a getter of brood
mare has been 80 great that it has
eclipsed his excellence as a sire of
trotters and stations. He, however,
for his opportunities, did we'll as a
sire Of performers, and in Bayard and
Tattle he left two sons who will do
much to perpetuate his fame.
And that is all the writer knows
about breeding. He realizes hat he
is as yet merely on the threshold of
the science. If when he learns more
the readers desire to hear more, he
will tell them all he knows. Mean
while, if by this writing, he a in
duce the farmers of his native State
to breed horses that in open market
will bring $500 a head instead of a
lot of plugs worth $500 a a load, he
will be amply repaid for his trouble
and will feel that he has fastened the
day when greenbacks instead Of cheap
chattle mortgages will be the currency
of the country. -,